This whole ceremony thing was waaaaaaaaaaaay over done. We litteraly
laughed
out loud. I understand the meaning of it and it's a nice thought. But I
kept
thinking about what if they had done this years ago? I can just see Mark,
Doug and Carol stroking out as they attempt to squash the hysterical
giggling; Carter, the med student, awkwardly tipping over the bowl of
water;
and Benton walking in on it and, without stopping, turning around and
walking right back out.
-Sharontoo
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*There are no accidents in life*
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>I wasn't even going to watch ER last night. I thought VERY hard about
> skipping it. I didn't think I could stand to see Luka on his knees
> sobbing out his pleas for forgiveness.
>
> But I tuned in. Nothing better to do. (DH was watching something awful
> in the bedroom, and I had to stay up while a couple of loads of
> laundry did their thing.) And ... to my amazement ... I actually
> liked it. Most of it anyway.
>
> The opening scenes were not promising. The stuff with the camel was
> definitely one of the top ten Stupidest ER 'Humor' moments ever
> filmed. (And that scene also included the now required juvenile
> ***ual humor, with the intern gawking at Neela's butt, and (a few
> minutes later) everyone getting the chance to gawk at Dubenko's.
>
> But, once we got past that part, it mostly worked. The Luka/Abby
> stuff, IMO was handled very well. I LOVED the scene in Neela's
> apartment. And as for the feared "Luka begging forgiveness" ... it
> wasn't actually that way at all. In fact, it made perfect sense from
> every viewpoint. Guilt is NOT a rational emotion. People often feel
> a sense of guilt when something terrible happens, even if it isn't
> their fault, and wasn't anything that they could have changed or
> avoided. So, when Abby told Luka most things (and he probably guessed
> the rest), he felt guilty. Of course he had to be with his dad, but
> it doens't change the fact that, during his absence, and, at least to
> some extent, DUE to his absence, Abby had some awful stuff happen.
> (Not to mention his ability to see, when he did arrive home, that
> something was very wrong, or at least to guess what that 'something'
> might be. And now, due to this bad stuff, he and Abby have to be apart
> again. So yeah, "It's my fault," is a very normal, human reaction,
> and a very normal, human way of expressing pain and grief. (And, just
> for the record, he wasn't on his knees.)
>
> I was also dreading Julia's "ER blessing ceremony" but that too
> worked amazingly well. I think the fact that it was not only handled
> seriously, but the characters/actors took it all seriously made it
> work. (One confusion though. Wasn't Julia talking about things that
> happened THIS year? So why were most of the 'patients who changed
> you' memories from season 12? (Of course ... S13 had almost no
> memorable stories.) And I could question whether Abby really WAS
> 'changed' in any way by (forget his name) her former prof with the
> degenerative disease. But, those are small quibbles.
>
> The patient storylines were pretty well handled, and both were new.
> (Unless you count the 'kid was stable, then crashed in the ER' stuff,
> but that's been done at least 1000 times since S1.) I found Sam's new
> Supernurse persona a bit hard to swallow. What ARE they teaching her
> in this 'trans****t' program? (And what is it? I missed the eppy
> where she started it.)
>
> And one other question. It seems that very often we've been told that
> once a patient has been intubated, it requires quite a number of of
> legal hoops to jump through before he can be extubated, even if he has
> a clear DNR and/or family members want it done. So how were they able
> to extubate our emphysema lady so immediately?
>
> The 300 Patients concept was pretty well handled too. (Though, I
> dunno, was it 300 pateints in the day, or in 12 hours? If the former,
> it hardly seems excessive for a busy inner city ER.) Still my thought
> at the final bit was "You're going to need those winnings, Morris,
> when Frank has you arrested for assault and battery."
>
> I was thinking the other day about Julia. Aside from being a poorly
> drawn character, she's also not a very logical choice for chaplain in
> this ER. Surely the patient base (given its location and status) is
> going to lean heavily towards Catholics (Chicago is the largest
> Catholic diocese in the country) and, among the African Americans,
> fairly conservative main-stream protestants. (Baptist, AME, etc.)
> These are not people who are likely to respond well to a chaplain like
> this.
>
> Sigh.... so it was actually a pretty good espisode. Still, with Luka
> presumably now gone for good, I don't know if I'm going to bother
> anymore. There is nothing else on the show that holds my interest
> anymore.
>
> Naomi
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